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The United States and Israel Sign Space Cooperation Agreement (israelnationalnews.com)
MarkWhittington writes: According to a story in Arutz Sheva, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Israel Space Agency Director General Menachem Kidron signed an agreement to further future space cooperation between the two countries. The agreement took place at the International Astronautical Conference taking place in Jerusalem. The agreement restores a previous commitment for space cooperation between the two countries that lapsed in 2005. The current agreement will have a far greater scope than the previous one.
Mel Brooks was right?
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Wow! It is great to hear about one country in that part of the world who is interested in rockets WITHOUT explosives attached. Good job, Israel!
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<you know the tone I'm using here>My son, the astronaut. He never calls. He never writes. Something about delays, transmission delays maybe, i don't know, but never calls, doesn't write eithuh, no never, and what am I, chopped liveh? He couldn't stay on earth, and take care of his mother, like a good boy, no, he had to go gallavanting all over like a big shot, while I sit here, no one to take care of me... Not like my husband, Mortimer. Mortimer! MORTIMER! BRING ME MY TEA!<end tone>
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So, it is better to rely on Russia for all of our space needs? Name one other proven way to get living human beings to the ISS.
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Jews in space. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Hmmm. Would you rather be a Muslim in Israel, or a Jew in pretty much any Muslim country? Please explain which you would choose, why, and what your expected life span would be.
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You sound verklempt, bubbeleh. Unless you're just hakn a tshaynik.
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But that's not all the only place they build, is it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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I live in the Northern part of the US, so I don't really encounter a lot of the fundamentalists. They're only a small percentage of Christians, anyway.
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You can easily be that ignorant. Truth is the Israelis live on stolen land, and are vicious thieves. Fuck you and you shilling for them.
The truth hurts them, so they pay cunt shills like you to pretend they have support. Mindless fucking worm.
Turns out the US and Isrial had an agreement on 9/11 also.
Youtube 9/11 experts speak out
What you are describing as your goal is a one world government. In that sort of scenario citizenship in a particular country isn't particularly important, people don't have much loyalty to their country and people and goods travel fairly freely through the world. That's what you have with empire not a world of nation states. An empire is constructed in such a way that the effectual top government is not particularly tied to the people it governs, rather they are just resources. And because they are just resources that government wants to reduce friction caused by culture. So nationality is downplayed.
The reason people don't like that is that they want a government that is more responsive i.e. a government which agrees with them on fundamental questions about the nature of the good. You can't have both a one world government and a government that is responsive to the governed. That's the downside of your vision.
There is no difference in Muzzies, who have since 700AD overrun large parts of Asia and Africa versus Christians overrunning the Americas, Asia and uh oh, Europe.
Or have you forgotten that _all_ of the Europeans where _non christians_ before roughly 400AD?
I for my part hate it to be sourrounded by all those Christians who have forgotten the prime doctrins of their religion.
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
Ultimately utopistic. Nations will still compete for access to natural resources, and will feed nationalisms and cultural particolarisms in order to do so. Access to oil and water supplies plays a major part in the current Middle East situation. Cultural, racial and religious identities are just tools in this struggle, even if the media will try to pass a simplicistic good vs. evil scenario.
How could countries that have strong national identities not discriminate? The whole purpose of the state is to be the agency for collective of the nation. Nations by their very nature have strong cultural and often ethnic identities. To not discriminate the state can't be the collective agency for nations.
You make an uneducated rash statement you cannot back up.
"Muzzies"? Really? Are you 11 years old? The rest of your post contained absolutely nothing of any use to anyone - just a rambling about something which has absolutely no bearing on the subject at hand, drenched in xenophobia and reeking of abject, comfortable ignorance.
Clearly you'd not want Jewish settlements if you just happened to be born where Israel wants to build a settlement, as you'd be absolutely fucked. But as that doesn't fit into your wonderfully childish worldview, I'm sure you'll ignore that and carry on attacking people who are different to you, for no other reason than your tiny, scared mind yearns to do so.
Your ignorance is astounding, and your desire to be ignorant even more so.
Did no one ever teach you that two wrongs don't make a right? If every country was contented to just not be the worst, what would that do to the world?
Grow up. The future begs you.
Sadly, no. :( Although I like Trevor Noah well enough to keep watching, I thought -- still think -- Stewart was about as good as you can get at the job he created. Not that I agreed with everything he said, or thought all the takes they took on various issues were correct, but damn he could make me laugh. Credit to the show's writers as well, of course, but Stewart's delivery is what made it work. What a sly way he had about him as a comic. Gave great face, as it were.
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ISIS and Hamas are enemies.
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If you question Israel in any way you are an anti-semite and a holocaust denier. If you are Jewish and question Israel, you are a self-hater.
"To find out who rules you, find out who you cannot criticize" - Voltaire
Interestingly, Israel is the smallest country in the world with an indigenous space launch capability. It also seems to have a significant and complex space research program and infrastructure dating back to the 1960s, and specializing in nano and micro satellites. It has signed agreements with the space agencies of France (CNES), Canada (CSA), India (ISRO), Germany (DLR), Ukraine (NSAU), Russia (RKA), Netherlands (NIVR) and Brazil (AEB), so it's not a surprise they are signing an agreement with NASA.
U.S. Taxpayer money? Seems to me it wasn't that long ago that Israel begged America fo a bunch of money to buy missiles to level a Palestinian city. If they can't afford bombing people who should be their friends and brothers, what good would they be for helping with space exploration?
Yes, according to an institution where the world's most corrupt leaders vastly outnumber the West, where mass-murderers head the "Human Rights" council and where Israel is held up to vastly higher standards than the rest.
I assume you'd like the US to snuggle up with Islamic nations instead, correct?
OK, if you don't believe the UN, let's ask some Jews:
http://livefromoccupiedpalesti...
http://www.salon.com/2015/06/2...
http://www.nkusa.org/AboutUs/Z...
Now please do your best to make ad hominem attacks on those voices, since you don't have any substantive argument to make.
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Do you always go along with the majority opinion?
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The USA has an idealogical identity and most certainly does discriminate against people who aren't part of the nation. Constant subtle pressure is applied. America even prides itself on being a melting pot. For example look at the wage discrepancy between: fluent unaccented English vs. accented English vs. monolingual non-English in the USA. Or for another example how the educational system undermines strong tribal bonds.
Jews in most nations including 1930s Germany were fully or almost fully assimilated.
... is the last message thread. And I'm catching up several days after the event. I'm getting a message here, and it's one of political influence, not one of reliable data.
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